Object Details
- Label Text
- Yao combs are distinguished by a variety of geometric patterns worked in small imported glass beads.
- Description
- Rectangular reed comb with a single row of multiple teeth, topped by a square panel of glass beads strung on fiber in a pattern of white, black and red triangles and one green triangle and band.
- Provenance
- Michael Graham-Stewart, London, -- to 1989
- Exhibition History
- The Earth Moves - We Follow: Celebrating African Art, Frank H. McClung Museum, Knoxville, January 10-May 18, 2003
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- Data Source
- National Museum of African Art
- Maker
- Yao artist
- Date
- Late 19th-early 20th century
- Credit Line
- Acquisition grant from the James Smithson Society
- Medium
- Reed, plant fiber, glass beads
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8.9 x 5.6 x 0.5 cm (3 1/2 x 2 3/16 x 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Sculpture
